So have you made the videos you have always wanted?

[x_rex30]

I am Racer X.

[Knowname]

this is so fun! can I be Bill Gates? I look like Bill Gates... sort of.

[James Sharp]

There are many great points from many different people in this thread. after reading a few i figure i will try to make some sense of it all and see if people can agree.

I see amv making as being a multiple level sorta thing.

On one level you have skill. Skill is influenced by repetition.

On another level you have inspiration. Inspiration is driven for the most part by passion. You watch an anime and you see some real synergy between a song in your mind. or the other way around. then you start to get excited as you build a concept. Soon you become passion.

In the end the two levels come together something like this.

You see an anime get inspired. get passionate. make the amv. you gain skill. and you repeat.



Both parties have great points of how a video is made and how truly good videos come into play.

While i have no doubt that the most skilled amv makers here could easily turn a project they are not passionate about into a good video. It still stands to reason that they could never get to that point without passion at some point.

and with that said you can see that.

The skill many people talked about is needed.
The passion many people talked about is needed.
The repetition that many people talked about is needed.

So i think beowolf made the most sense when he said you actually have to get editing in order to succeed. you may not succeed now. but eventually if you dont give up like caster troy said. you will make a great amv.

It reminds me of an old saying i once heard i have no idea of its origins.

Action without reason is pointless.
reason with no action is pointless.

You need both to be good.

Now i must warn however that i have been awake for close to 24 hours now and drunk most of the time. my weekend was wicked awesome. so i probably am making zero sense.

[TEKnician]

Three words.

Deadlines produce compromises.

Why not make videos for yourself on your own time? That way, you will lessen your stress and you won't have that "must finish in time" feeling. Then, when a contest does pop up, you can pick and choose your best one.

[xPiikanyaa]

Sometimes. If I'm capable of doing it and have the motivation, then yes I will make it. But sometimes the editing style is a bit out of my reach, or I'm too lazy to do it.

[simofc90]

never.

[x_rex30]

One of the things that has kept me from making the videos I wanted was the time it would take for me to make a video that I really wanted. I think it would take over a month of time to make even one video that I really wanted.

Another thing is, ideas don't flow into me like they use to. After hearing a song for the second time I'd naturally have scenes come to mind and pretty much make an entire music video in my head. Now when I hear a song I've heard before, I can't just have clear ideas come to me. Before it was like heaven in my head. The ideas were very clear to me, footage would play on auto pilot as I re-heard a song and the footage would even all be synced up perfectly to the music. I didn't have to try to come up with an idea most of the time, it would just come up by itself. The footage would even have great mood sync.. some very intense mood sync at times. Of course things don't always look as good as you imagined it once you get to editing. But yeah definitely miss that aspect of my mind.

So even if I did have more patients with editing videos nowadays, the fact that ideas don't seem to want to come to me anymore I think would make it take longer to make the videos I wanted and because of me not being able to visualize what scenes to use as well would also make the video not turn out as well as it could of.

I could blame the ideas not coming to me because I haven't watched anime for a long while and that I don't remember the visuals through the entire series/movies as well. Because of this, it seems like a lot of the time now when I hear music, I just make up scenes that don't exist in anime or I just imagine live action stuff going on that I also naturally make up as the music is going.

So when I'm reading in a video comment that the editor visualized most of the scenes before he started editing, and they ended up being edited exactly how he visualized them, I get upset that I am not able to do that as much as before. I was happy that I somehow did that with my akira video. I had the amv already made in my head years before I actually made the video and when I finally got around to making the video, the scenes turned out exactly as I imagined them in my head. The whole video wasn't perfectly mapped out but most of the key parts of the amv were definitely planned out years in advance.

[downwithpants]

i'm discouraged that amvs take too long for me as well. i'm considering doing some short amvs, like short segments of the song like amv hell, or even failed experiments in video editing, but not necessarily comedy amvs.